The grace of four moons : dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India / Pravina Shukla ; photographs by Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie.
- Shukla, Pravina
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
xi, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Body art in Banaras -- Getting ready -- Gaze, sacred and secular -- Shopping for clothes -- Weaving saris -- Making jewelry -- Kanhaiya Lal -- Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali -- Assembling bangle sets -- Nina Khanchandani -- Neelam Chaturvedi -- Mukta Tripathi -- After the wedding -- Before the wedding -- The wedding -- The study of body art.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-490) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.